Talend offers limited connectivity to concurrent databases, and other forms of data but has a dependency factor ofJavadrivers to connect to the data sources whereas Pentaho offers a wide range of connectivity to extensive databases, and other forms of data

Talend has its support which exists majorly in the US whereas Pentaho its support which not only exists in the US, and also targets the UK, Asia Pacific markets

Although both Talend and Pentaho tools carry similar characteristics, here one needs to understand the GUI which Pentaho Kettle holds a slight advantage.

Below we see the salient characteristics and prominent offerings of the Pentaho Kettle to Talend: